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ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PETER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-LOCKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,923, dated May 26, 1896.

Application filed December 17, 1895. Elerial N0. 572,45 7. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PETER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Lockers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for temporarily supporting clothing, hats, canes, umbrellas, and the like, and the object is to provide such a device of very simple construction, which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively small cost.

The invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will hereinafter appear, and be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a locker.

embodying my invention and showing it as open. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but showing it closed,with certain articles suspended. Fig. 3 is a side view of an umbrella or cane securer employed. Fig. 4 is perspective view thereof. Fig. 5 is a partial plan and partial section thereof. Fig. 6 is a front view of a back board and hook or rod thereon. Fig. 7 is a section through the line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a partial section and partial side elevation of a hat-holder employed. Fig. 9 is a plan View thereof. Fig. 10 is a partial plan and partial section of a hat-clip employed. Fig. 11 is a section through the line 11 11 of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 shows the means of securing a hat, and Fig. 13 shows the means of securing an umbrella or cane.

The locker comprises a back piece A, de signed to be secured to a wall, and a lockingbar A, having its upper edge hinged to brackets A extended outward from the ends of the back piece. A look a is seated in one of the brackets A and is designed to engage a keeper a on the locking-bar.

I do not limit my invention to the form of the parts A A A as shown, as many forms are suitable, and the parts may be made of light metal ornamented as desired.

Attached to and extended outward from the back piece A are a number of hanger-rods A The rods are of sufficient length to project into depressions a formed in the inner side of the locking-bar when the same is closed, thus preventing the removal of suspended articles when the bar is closed and locked.

B is a cane or umbrella securer, consisting of a loop of flexible materialsuch, for instance, as leather. It has a series of perforations bin its ends, and a metal band B, provided with a perforation b, is designed to slide over the lapped ends of the loop. The perforations are of a size to slip easily over a rod A and the object of the series of perforations b is to render the loop adjustable to difierent diameters of canes or umbrella-sticks. In use the loop is passed around the stick and the band is placed on and forced toward the stick with the perforation b in line with opposite perforations b, and then the securer may be placed upon a rod A and the bar A looked, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2.

C is ahat-clip, consisting of resilient metal bent to form jaws 0, adapted to engage the edge of a hat-brim just inside the binding. Alined holes 0 are formed through the shank portion and are designed to fit tightly on a rod A so that when in such position the jaws cannot be spread apart to release a hat. Extended upward and forward from the back piece A and in line vertically with one of the rods A is an adjustable hat pin 0, designed to engage within the crown of a hat and serve, in connection with the clip 0, to secure the hat, as plainly shown in Fig. 12. The hatpin comprises two telescopic sections 0 a The section 0 is provided on one side with rack-teeth 0, adapted to be engaged by a spring-dog c on the end of the section 0 thus providing a locking device or detent betweenthe two sections. It is to be understood, however, that I do not limit my invention to the construction of detent shown, and it is further to be understood that the part 0 is not wholly essential to the part 0, as a hat may be secured by the clip alone. In operation theclip is to be engaged with the hatbrim and then slid upon the rod A when the part 0 may be adjusted in the hat crown.

It will be obvious that a device embodying my invention will be of value, not only in private residences, but particularly in public places, such as barber-shops, hotels, restaurants, billiard-rooms, and the like. The articles supported in the locks will be practically safe from sneak-thieves, and also from the unintentional appropriation of a hat, cane, or umbrella, as often happens in public places.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a supporting-rod and a locking-bar, of a hanger for an umbrella or the like, comprising a strip of flexible material adapted to be turned around a handle or stick and having holes to engage over a rod, and the adj usting-band, substantially as specified.

2. 'A hanger for umbrellas and the like, comprising a strip of flexible material having apertures in its ends and adapted tobe bent around a handle or stick, and an apertured band 011 the ends of the said strip, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a hanger-rod, of a hat-securing device, comprising a springclip or jaws having united shanks said shanks being spaced apart and provided with alined apertures to receive and fit tightly on the hanger-rod, substantially as described.

4. A hat-securer, comprising ahorizontallyextended rod, a spring-clip movable longitudinally thereof for engaging the brim of a hat, and the adjustable hat-pin to engage in the crown of a hat, substantially as specified.

JOHN PETER.

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